I want to remind you that I was in my bathing robe all this while and my hair slightly damp. I got into this 24 hours cafe and then I called Cathy, she said she wasn't in town and that the spare key wasn't even with her and she promised she'll take the first train by morning to come see me because I sounded so distressed. The only person that came to my mind was Martins.I could have booked a room, but whatever transaction I make will reflect on Luther's side and I didn't want him to find me until I was ready to see him."Hello", I said soon as he picked up."Martins Armstrong, how can I help you", he said."It's uhm, it's Ivy... Ivy from... from the uhm, from the Couples dinner, you ...you gave me your contact and uhm-""It's okay I remember you, are you okay? you sound-""I'm not... I know, I know I don't know you and you don't know me and hell you Could even be a serial killer and I could be walking into another trap maybe even worse than the one I'm running away from but I just -"
It's been 3 days, exactly 3 days since I last saw Ivy and I am loosing my mind.I reached out to her friend Cathy and she said she spoke to her that night but she wasn't in town and she's been trying to reach her but she hasn't heard from her since then.I've been having crazy thoughts, crazy ass thoughts like she was killed,not she decided to kill herself, because Ivy acts like someone that's suicidal... very suicidal.I've tried tracking her phone, her last location was a Cafe down the street and the workers there said she was last seen with a man. I don't even know who to think of because Ivy never talks to anyone, I really don't know her as much as I think I do."Danger,you need to calm down", Laura said for the 700th time."I can't"."Look, I know Ivy is alive, geez, and if you find her, what are you going to say to her? what do you plan on telling her? She needs space Danger, you just have to give her that until she sorts her mind out and she's ready to talk to you."I exhaled
LAURA *My mother is a badass, can't even lie.However she was able to call the mayor and send those guys to Luther's house, however she left the door open and how she knew Ivy was going to walk in and how she pretended like she knew nothing about this, shocks me honestly.The plan had worked, too perfect. And it's better she's with Martins, at least he can charm her all he wants and take her away from Luther, I don't care.But, I still had to keep up this fake act .I knocked on the hotel room door and few seconds later it opened and boy was she frightened and not happy to see me."Hi bestie", I said with my usual fake smile.Oh but she wasn't happy to see me."How did you find me?", she asked walking in slowly.I got in and shut the door."Did Martins -"Martins didn't tell me anything, I have my ways and no Luther doesn't know you're here"."So uhm.. what.. what are you doing here?", she asked, I could see her reach for a pocket knife on the table behind her."Ivy relax, if I want
IVY**Life always made one thing very clear to me; I was never destined for a normal life. Because explain to me how I lost my job because my boss framed theft on me, and I meet a guy at a club and sleep with him and get pregnant for him and then I realized he's a billionaire and I think it'll be nice if I just hang around a bit and get money to take care of my child and then I start falling for him only to realize that he and his entire family are bloody murderers!Damn it, the way he said it to me that night sent shivers down my spine. He's a Mafia lord and a runs a drug cartel?? damnnnn!When Laura showed up the other day, I swear I had genuine fear for her that moment and I knew that if she was going to threaten or say anything to me, she would actually mean it. And everything she said, everything she told me was enough to get me out of this country and far away from them.But I was with his baby, and yes it was my choice if I didn't want him to be in the picture, but it was his
LUTHER *"Saw Ivy Yesterday", Laura said entering my office.My face lit up."Saw her? where? is she safe? is she good? wait, how did you get access to Martins house and -""Calm down Danger! gosh. Yes she's safe and good no she's not in Martins house she's in a hotel".I opened my mouth to speak and she stopped me, "No I'm not going to tell you the hotel because you're an obsessed freak".Look whose talking.I opened my mouth to speak again and she stopped me."And no, I'm not going to tell you how I found her, just know that she's safe and okay and she's never coming back, now move on Danger!".I sighed and rubbed my temples."Can I at least just talk to her"."Why? so you can manipulate her into staying? that's not going to happen, For God sake for once think about her, she's not coming back to a bloody serial killing family, and she's not going to be safe here, she's not going to be safe around you, she's going to be traumatized, how can you not get that into your head"."And my
LUTHER **Today was supposed to be the day they open my dad's will and share everything among us. Which means it's my official crowning as the Cowper heir. Which also means I have to continue from everything my father did, and when I say everything I mean everything.And trust me when I say he's worse than me in every way.. he is.For instance I don't kill women or children. I can only use them to threaten you but I really won't hurt them.But my dad? he'll wipe out everything in your family including your dog.Laura, her mother,my godfather, Owen, his mother; my aunt, and every other relevant person was there.We were waiting for the Lawyer.Everyone seemed thrilled to be involved in this, but I wasn't. I just don't want to do this but I can't because it's my fucked up destiny.Few minutes later, The Lawyer walked into the living room with Ivy and Martins.The entire room fell silent.She avoided making eye contacts with me.I couldn't help but stare shamelessly. It was the first
IVY*It's been hard being in the same room with people that kill without blinking, it was crazy when I heard I was given that amount of things in his dad's will and it's the hardest being in the same room with Luther knowing fully well his stares were burning into me. I struggled not to look back, because if I caught the slightest glimpse of his eyes I'll melt.Everything went faster than I imagined and in a flash it was all over. And he wanted to talk to me, and just as I imagined, his eyes caught mine and I lost every form of self control.I just wanted to disappear but then again I wanted to hear what he had to say. This is more or less the last time we might talk, maybe after childbirth and that's it. I don't even want his family money, or the estates or anything, for all I care Laura can have it. I just want to disappear in a clean slate forever.Martins left and it was just two of us."Hi", he said calmly."Hi".He went silent for a while, thinking of the right words to say."
LAURA * * After everything I've been through, everything! I sacrificed my life for this family, I literally sold myself into Mafia to make this family proud and after all that I get 5 million yearly? fuck I make double of that!"Laura, Laura wait", I heard my mother running to catch up with me."Leave me Alone!""Laura!"I stopped on my tracks and turned to her."I'm done! done with everything in general, done playing this game, I'm done being a puppet for this shitty family, Owen is right, we're not Cowpers! and we never will be so I'm tired of trying to find a place in a family I do not belong to! I'm leaving everything behind, including you, I don't care what you have to say!"."Laura", she called softly."No do not fucken call me, all you've done is make my life a living hell and I'm tired of you, so please leave me alone!",I yelled and got into my car violently and drove out.I stopped at a Club; Queendom.I pulled up at the driveway and tossed my keys to one of the bouncer
IVY **I was scared as fuck, but Laura didn't look like she was playing when she told me to get into the car. I would have refused honestly, but two days ago, I spotted suspicious activities around my house, and I haven't been sleeping there at all. I told my boss about it and he said I could be staying in one of his private houses for a while until everything had cleared up.I only got back today to get more of my clothes and make dinner and leave.Now We're in front of the airport. "Laura you need to calm the fuck down and talk to me, what's going on? the last time you said I was unsafe being around the Cowper's and two days ago, some men with weapons surrounded my house surveying the place until I had to call the police, so please, you need to tell me what is going on".She looked at me for what looked like hours."Go to this side of the airport, you'll see a Cowper airplane, it's a private jet, tell them you're Ivy Cowper, unfortunately they know you with that name, they'll con
LAURA*Martins slammed my head in the desk, choking me tightly and I swear he was going to kill me.What is with these Cowper men and always choking me?"Martins, please", I begged."You fucken told Ivy to about me? are you out of your god-damn mind? are you insane!", he barked."You're choking me... please stop", I begged running out of breath."Do you know you're sabotaging our entire plan!", he screamed."Martins let her go I'll deal with it", My mother said coming from the kitchen with a bottle of champagne.He looked me dead in the eyes with fury and then slammed my head on the table again and let me go.I collapsed on the floor, breathless. I had a cut close to my eye brow, I was bleeding."Mom... you just sat there and watched him almost kill me?", I sobbed.What is this woman turning into? isn't she the same person that swore she'll always have my back?"If we're being honest, if you weren't my daughter I'd instruct him to kill you. Why would you do that? Ivy is clearly the o
LAURA*Martins slammed my head in the desk, choking me tightly and I swear he was going to kill me.What is with these Cowper men and always choking me?"Martins, please", I begged."You fucken told Ivy to about me? are you out of your god-damn mind? are you insane!", he barked."You're choking me... please stop", I begged running out of breath."Do you know you're sabotaging our entire plan!", he screamed."Martins let her go I'll deal with it", My mother said coming from the kitchen with a bottle of champagne.He looked me dead in the eyes with fury and then slammed my head on the table again and let me go.I collapsed on the floor, breathless. I had a cut close to my eye brow, I was bleeding."Mom... you just sat there and watched him almost kill me?", I sobbed.What is this woman turning into? isn't she the same person that swore she'll always have my back?"If we're being honest, if you weren't my daughter I'd instruct him to kill you. Why would you do that? Ivy is clearly the o
The internal struggle is something else. Confusion, fear, more confusion.I've been so off lately even my boss noticed it.It's the conversation I had with Laura.I know Laura is usually always scaring me and threatening me, but this one wasn't a threat it was a warning.Plus Owen died, and Laura is not looking herself at all. There's so much going on, and I don't know how I'm roped into any of this.This is the exact reason why I ran away in the first place.I got back from work later that night and I was so tired, I just wanted to get into bed and sleep, but I noticed my front door was slightly opened.My heart started beating fast.I pulled out a pocket knife from my bag and walked in slowly.Immediately I got in, I turned the lights on to find who it was leaving the door open so I can run out anytime I wanted to.It was Martins.Usually, I would have relaxed but from what Laura just told me? I can't trust anybody."What are you doing here? how do you have access to my house?", I
LAURA *Anyone who had seen me these past few days said the same thing; Something is wrong with me.It was all over my face and body. I used Owen's death as an excuse to cover up but in reality I was dying, I was slowly dying.I barely ate, I took antidepressants like how I'd drink water, I was too deep into drugs because that was the only thing keeping me sane.I hate my life, but I hated my mother even more."What are we going to do now that Luther's got the seat back?", Martins asked my mother who was pacing around the house."I think we should just... call this off and go our separate ways, I'm tired, really really tired. And it's worse cuz now Owen's death was a waste.""Laura you are not helping right now", My mother Said restless."Ivy", Martins said."What?"."Look, we need Luther to step down, because if he does, there's no other suitable candidate except Laura, now he's obviously not going to want to step down anytime soon unless he finds a cause to.We're going to use Ivy
I got a belated birthday gift from Luther the next day. It was a basket full of flowers, White roses were my favourite, I use to collect them a lot when I was still in his house.I'm guessing he noticed, All Martins ever brought me were red roses, he never asked me if I loved them or if I ever wanted them.Luther was going to make moving on from him harder than I imagined.I honestly thought he forgot, because everyone else did, including Martins, but he didn't.I put the basket in my room and carried on my entire week pretending like everything was fine.I just couldn't help but feel so sorry for Luther.He wanted out so badly, he really wanted to, and now Owen is dead? it's so heart breaking.I got back from work and met a very shocking visitor in front of my porch."Laura?", I asked so surprised because this is the second time I'm seeing her here.She had a cigarette in her hands, she wasn't crying but she really looked messed up."Can I uhm... can I have some of those your homemad
Ivy **I've occupied myself with work for the past 3 weeks. I've ignored Martins, even when he came to my office to see me, I told my PA to tell him I was in a meeting.I'm so fed up with the whole Cowper family drama, but I'll be a liar if I say I don't feel hurt about what Luther did to me.I got home today tired and exhausted and I just wanted to go to bed and sleep.It was my birthday today though.My office did a little celebration for me with a cake and some balloons and wine, I guess I've been their best manager yet so they had to do something special for me, and it was just perfect.I never really got to enjoy my birthdays, they were always the same.I got a call from Amber later that day and my brothers wishing my happy birthday. They asked I come around for Amber's proper white wedding to his wife which was in two weeks.I guess I do need to bond with them, I promised I would be there.I was just about to fall asleep when my doorbell rang.I groaned.it was definitely Mart
IVY **No, I don't feel horrible about Fucking Luther and then waking up to see he had left without telling me and didn't called me for two weeks even after I called him and texted him checking up on me and he read the text and never replied.No of course I don't feel horrible, I'm perfectly fine.Okay let's drop the act.Why the actual fuck will someone pretend to be so into you, and the very moment you finally sleep with him he disappears from your bed before morning and ghosts you right after, why?? is that even legal? Oh my God I can't believe I let my guard down again! after promising myself that I won't let this man into my life, I'm such a-My thoughts were I interrupted by a knock on my door.Is it .. Luther?I rushed out of the kitchen and went to the door to open.My smile went down a bit."Ivy"."Martins", I said faking a smile.He handed me flowers.As usual."Come in", I said and led him inside.We started with the small talks and all and he mentioned he was tired, he
Everyone was looking at me surprised."But you quit? you wanted out of the game to get a new life right?", my godfather asked.I nodded, "And where did that get us? Owen's dead. Seems like this lifestyle keeps chasing me everywhere, I'm the fucken Cowper heir and so be it"."Have you uhm... considered giving it to another person, I mean we all knew that Owen was a good fit but... he wasn't that powerful, only the throne gave him the power", Laura's mother said."And get another person dead? no"."Consider Laura for example, they didn't kill her, the only reason she got injured was because she was trying to protect Owen, maybe they didn't want Owen , they wanted someone else there".I inhaled the hot and burnt taste of the cigarette and released it."That person is going to be me"."Luther i-""It's Don Danger now", I stated."Look I'm only saying that -""godmother, I appreciate whatever it is you're trying to do but we have a serial killer that we have to go after and I'm going to fi